Sentences with phrase «traffic studies on»

The city government is also in the process of implementing a near $ 390,000 federally funded traffic study on Broadway and the Washington Avenue corridor.

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Richardson has also started reviewing products in his niche areas on sites such as Amazon.com and has found, from studying his sales and traffic reports, that this is leading customers back to his eBay Store.

«There is only one way to really reduce congestion and cut down on traffic,» warns Tim Lomax, the author of the annual TTI study on U.S. congestion.

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The meeting, scheduled for Thursday, was delayed until city officials and Park District staff review recent studies on the impact of traffic and storm - water retention on Frontier Park, said Ken Brissa, deputy director of the Park District.

But tiredness brought on by daylight savings has also been shown to increase the number of traffic accidents and, according to a Swedish study, it increases the risk of having a heart attack — say what?!

BY JOSH ROGERS It almost seems as if there's been a Canal St. traffic study for every car on the street.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

During a hearing before the New York City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio's taxi commissioner made clear the administration would not back away from its plan to temporarily cap the ride - hail service's stratospheric growth while the city studied its impact on traffic congestion.

As for residents» options for transit during the 18 - month shutdown, Maloney spoke of a traffic study the city had committed to on a proposal for a car - free 14th Street.

But it was not until that testimony on December 9th that Foye revealed there had been no traffic study — the stated reason from the Christie appointees (who have since been fired) as to why the lanes were actually closed.

Cuomo on Monday in a TV interview invited de Blasio to join a task force studying traffic issues in New York City, which the mayor's office rejected.

«Specifically,» he said, «the City will move forward with a traffic study, to conclude at the end of November, to examine the impact of Uber and the for - hire vehicle industry on traffic congestion on New York City streets.»

That study also found that when truck traffic decreased on the Peace Bridge after the Sept. 11 attacks, so did cases of respiratory diseases in the west side.

The administration originally called for the temporary cap while the city studied the companies» impact on traffic congestion and figured out how to better regulate the rapidly changing industry.

Lehane said the report assumes Airbnb hosts are filling their rooms or apartments every night of the year, which is «akin to conducting a traffic study that assumes all cars in New York are on the road all day, every day.»

New York Republicans tore into beleaguered Gov. Andrew Cuomo hours after top operative for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie testified that the New York governor had helped develop a top Port Authority's testimony that the 2013 lane closures on the George Washington Bridge were part of a legitimate traffic study — even though both executives knew that the «traffic study» was a fraud.

Wildstein testified that it was his «understanding» from his former superior Bill Baroni — a Christie appointee now facing federal charges — that that the New York and New Jersey governors colluded to blame the shut down of lanes headed into Fort Lee on a fraudulent «traffic study.»

In August 2010, Rosenthal and Stringer called on the DOT to improve safety at the intersection, saying the agency was spending too much time studying the traffic - heavy site and not enough time making actual improvements.

BY NATHAN RILEY Outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to sit on a city health department study into the efficacy of establishing safe places for drug users to pursue their high — facilities that are in place all over Europe with proven track records of reducing fatal overdoses — protestors sat down in the middle of Broadway across from City Hall bringing downtown traffic to a halt.

The committee passed a resolution called on the Department of Transportation to conduct a «stop sign traffic study.»

Oddo — who has railed against other projects trying to get exemptions for the law recently — called on the BSA to reject the application so it would force a study into potential traffic problems.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped a plan, for now, to cap the growth of for - hire vehicles such as Uber Wednesday after City Hall and the car service agreed on a plan to study traffic congestion for four months.

Cuomo was responding to a question about a de Blasio - backed City Council bill that would cap the growth of Uber and other for - hire services for up to a year to allow the city to study their impact on traffic congestion in midtown Manhattan.

This is not the expressway's first time at the number one spot in the INRIX study, and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez on Tuesday also called for improving the expressway by taking trucks off of it and shifting more commercial traffic to trains.

Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat who was locked in a bitter public relations war with Uber over the last several weeks, said legislation to limit the company's growth is still «on the table» after a four - month traffic study is completed.

This spring, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams requested the Department of Transportation study traffic calming on the avenue to make it safer for pedestrians and cyclists, after he said he was urged by locals to tackle the issue.

De Blasio also promised to tackle the borough's transportation and traffic issues, pointing towards several studies being done to improve it — including Oddo's plan to install a bike lane on Richmond Terrace — but he didn't announce any set plans.

Amid the barrage, Mr. de Blasio had moved this week to portray Uber as a Walmart on wheels, describing the company as a corporate behemoth and promoting the cap as a critical component of the traffic study.

NEWARK — Tuesday's Bridgegate testimony dropped a bombshell from star witness to the prosecution David Wildstein: that both New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo knowingly signed off on a fake «traffic study» as the reason that three local access lanes into the George Washington Bridge were funneled into one for four days in September 2013.

DeFrancisco said Monday that the state should include the tunnel as one of the options in a draft environmental impact study that will compare each option based on cost, the impact on local businesses and the economy, traffic congestion and other factors.

The recently published study shows, based on the available information, that traffic (25 %), combustion and agriculture (22 %), domestic fuel burning (20 %), natural dust and salt (18 %), and industrial activities (15 %) are the main sources of particulate matter contributing to cities» air pollution.

(Caveat: That impressive figure, pulled from a study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, excludes intoxicated drivers and assumes that everyone on the road is driving a talking car, that every intersection and stop sign in America can join in the conversation, and that the auto industry agrees on standardized equipment for all this chatter.)

Studies probe US traffic injuries, deaths focus on factors that reduce, exacerbate toll.

«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Studies on 2300 LED traffic lights in five counties in California show that the LED traffic lights should last up to ten times as long as a conventional lamp, consume a seventh of the energy and require less maintenance.

When they cross-referenced that time against New Jersey traffic data for the roads crossing their study area, they found that snakes were virtually guaranteed to encounter several cars during any road crossing — anywhere from 3 - 4 cars crossing the least - used road, to more than 30 cars per two - minutes on New Jersey's Route 72 during the busy summer season.

There, she met a team of physicians connected with the Children's Environmental Health Center at the University of Southern California who were conducting a long - term study on the link between chronic exposure to air pollution from freeway traffic and respiratory illnesses.

Henry Brown, a civil research engineer at MU, was lead author on a third study that investigated common practices for diverting traffic while constructing and later maintaining geometric interchanges, which included DDIs.

LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle around cities offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said on Wednesday.

A recent study led by Hugh Lewis, an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton in England, reports the growth of small satellite traffic is expected to have a «significant impact» on the space environment.

He works on machine - learning algorithms known as Boltzmann machines, used to study patterns in online traffic and identify cyberattacks.

Such radio traffic could be readily apparent On the earth, for example, a new radar system employed with the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory for planetary studies emits a narrow - bandwidth signal that, if it were detected from another star, would be between a million and 10 billion times brighter than the sun at the same frequency.

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

In its 2014 study on human trafficking (pdf) the U.N. agency found that 40 percent of countries surveyed reported less than 10 convictions per year between 2010 and 2012.

«Everyone's working on risk assessment in route planning,» says Alex Bayen, an engineer at the University of California at Berkeley who studies traffic flow.

His laboratory currently applies high throughput imaging technologies to study trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, and the internalization pathways taken by synthetic nanoparticles on exposure to cells.

However to date, epidemiological studies that have examined associations between long - term exposure to traffic - related air pollution and type 2 diabetes in adults are inconsistent, and studies on insulin resistance in children are scarce.